This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEOne can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.
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He should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
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Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
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People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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